Most Efficient Buff Foods

• Zekkii wrote on 2014-02-10 20:01

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1196819:

  Well if you hate cooking Zekkii there's lots of NPC food you could buy to achieve decent enough effects I feel. I don't know what's the most efficient NPC food though so that's something that someone would have to look into (too lazy to do it)

  
  After scouring through all the recipes a few times, these are my favourites:
  
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  [spoiler=Luck (+HP/SP/MP)]
  

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• Friggerton wrote on 2014-02-10 20:22
  [SIZE="3"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"]I finally found (I think) all of the edible, buffing food listed on the wiki, and went through each letter and found more dishes that I'll make screenshot categories of after I get home from work. Perhaps with that additional organization this could be made into a guide.[/FONT][/SIZE]
• Tropa wrote on 2014-02-10 22:00
  Since Stats do have a hard cap(1500) I see foods not being as beneficial as it should be for end-game players.
  
  One thing they can do is make it so foods can give other stats:
  

  
  
  • Maximum Damage
    
  • Minimum Damage
    
  • Magic Attack
    
  • Critical
    
  • Balance
    
  • Alchemic Damage[SIZE="1"](Water, Fire, Wind & Clay variants)[/SIZE]
    
  • Music Buff
    
  • Defense
    
  • Protection
    
  • Magic Defense
    
  • Magic Protection

  
  Should also give various status effects as well
  

  
  
  • Health Regeneration
    
  • Mana Regeneration
    
  • Stamina Regeneration
    
  • Auto Defense(%)
    
  • Natural Shield(%)
    
  • Mana Deflector(%)
    
  • Stomp Defense
    
  • Poison Immunity
    

  
  
  
  Though, this would make festival foods very useful or very broken([S]Well not really since it only lasts a whole whopping 20 minutes[/S]).
• Azareel wrote on 2014-02-10 22:42

  Quote from Zekkii;1196815:

  That's all well and good, but if it takes you 5 minutes to create a dish that gives around say 250 of a stat then you would get the following in damage return over 20 minutes:

  
  
  Assuming I'm not doing multi-stage dishes, 10 dishes is easily < 5 minutes.
  
  As King said, if you really don't like cooking that much, you can always buy NPC foods. There's a number that provide decent enough effects at a low cost.
  
  Aside from that, the small amount of time you spend on cooking can be done at the same time as socializing, waiting on people, etc.
• Zunori wrote on 2014-02-10 22:54
  My personal favorites:
  Seafood Spaghetti:http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Seafood_Spaghetti
  Coconut Crab Soup:http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Coconut_Crab_Soup
  Caviar Salad:http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Caviar_Salad
  All can be bought for under 5k from Vanalen in Belvast and they provide great effects.
• Zekkii wrote on 2014-02-10 23:24

  Quote from Zunori;1196902:

  My personal favorites:
  Seafood Spaghetti:http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Seafood_Spaghetti
  Coconut Crab Soup:http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Coconut_Crab_Soup
  Caviar Salad:http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Caviar_Salad
  All can be bought for under 5k from Vanalen in Belvast and they provide great effects.

  
  Yeah those ones are pretty good too. I tried to avoid the 3.5~4k ones though since it using 10 per 20 minutes will run you 105~120k per hour. That's not too expensive for parties, but I wouldn't bother using them for soloing personally. The dishes around 1k will cost about 30k per hour, although the dexterity one is particularly terrible.
• wilson10000 wrote on 2014-02-10 23:29
  I would personally use Steamed Corn and Hot Chocolate.
  
  Both ingredients are really easy to get, also Club Sandwich for ranged and puppet.
• Zunori wrote on 2014-02-10 23:45

  Quote from Zekkii;1196917:

  Yeah those ones are pretty good too. I tried to avoid the 3.5~4k ones though since it using 10 per 20 minutes will run you 105~120k per hour. That's not too expensive for parties, but I wouldn't bother using them for soloing personally. The dishes around 1k will cost about 30k per hour, although the dexterity one is particularly terrible.

  
  
  Yeah true. I never thought about multiplying the cost by 10. In that case they do cost a lot.
• Tropa wrote on 2014-02-10 23:46

  Quote from wilson10000;1196921:

  I would personally use Steamed Corn and Hot Chocolate.
  
  Both ingredients are really easy to get, also Club Sandwich for ranged and puppet.

  
  
  Noted, these are great dishes for fire alchemists and the hot chocolate is awesome for gunslingers.
• SlurpTASTY wrote on 2014-02-11 00:12
  I feel like to make food actually worth it they'd need to either increase the buffs gained from one dish or allow you to mass produce dishes. As it stands now its extremely inefficient to take the time to gather materials and make 10 dishes just for a 20 minute buff. The only buffs used in the game constantly are buffs that are easy to use (bard skills, bone chips, etc) or just there (reforges, upgrades, enchants, etc). I know if we had to run around in a circle 10 times and pray to morrighan to activate battlefield overture nobody would be using it.
  
  Festival food seems kind of worth it when buffing 20+ people (good for raids) but I'd never consider it for something such as dailies or a lord mission, it's just way too much effort for not enough gain.
  
  Also It would also be nice if there was an actual ruler in game for cooking so I wouldn't have to open up a fucking cooking ruler everytime I want to make something with cooking.
• Syliara wrote on 2014-02-11 00:17

  Quote from SlurpTASTY;1196934:

  I feel like to make food actually worth it they'd need to either increase the buffs gained from one dish or allow you to mass produce dishes. As it stands now its extremely inefficient to take the time to gather materials and make 10 dishes just for a 20 minute buff. The only buffs used in the game constantly are buffs that are easy to use (bard skills, bone chips, etc) or just there (reforges, upgrades, enchants, etc). I know if we had to run around in a circle 10 times and pray to morrighan to activate battlefield overture nobody would be using it.
  
  Festival food seems kind of worth it when buffing 20+ people (good for raids) but I'd never consider it for something such as dailies or a lord mission, it's just way too much effort for not enough gain.
  
  Also It would also be nice if there was an actual ruler in game for cooking so I wouldn't have to open up a fucking cooking ruler everytime I want to make something with cooking.

  
  
  If they simply increased the hard cap to 2000 for stats or made some foods increase stats that arent hard capped or currently able to be hard capped (i.e. what tropacat mentioned) then I would use it, but as it stands I'm wasting food for dexterity by using those food buffs.
• Zekkii wrote on 2014-02-11 00:18

  Quote from Nui;1196936:

  If they simply increased the hard cap to 2000 for stats or made some foods increase stats that arent hard capped or currently able to be hard capped (i.e. what tropacat mentioned) then I would use it, but as it stands I'm wasting food for dexterity by using those food buffs.

  
  I don't see why the stat cap can't be something like 5000, or 10000 or even 100000.
• Syliara wrote on 2014-02-11 00:19

  Quote from Zekkii;1196937:

  I don't see why the stat cap can't be something like 5000, or 10000 or even 100000.

  
  
  Fine by me, not like we can reach the cap for max damage (even tho there technically is one) so I don't see why we need to be limited for stats when we cant reach the cap anyways. Its basically hindering our full potential for no real reason (or at least none I can think of).
• Zekkii wrote on 2014-02-11 00:22

  Quote from Nui;1196938:

  Fine by me, not like we can reach the cap for max damage (even tho there technically is one) so I don't see why we need to be limited for stats when we cant reach the cap anyways. Its basically hindering our full potential for no real reason (or at least none I can think of).

  
  I'm told I sounded sarcastic, although that was not my intention.
• SlurpTASTY wrote on 2014-02-11 00:24

  Quote from Nui;1196936:

  If they simply increased the hard cap to 2000 for stats or made some foods increase stats that arent hard capped or currently able to be hard capped (i.e. what tropacat mentioned) then I would use it, but as it stands I'm wasting food for dexterity by using those food buffs.

  
  
  Well the points I raised are from the perspective of someone who isn't near 1500 of any stat (me) and I still don't think its worth it. I really have a hard time believing people in a game where efficiency is everything will be sitting around gathering a bunch of wheat and corn and bullshit to make some mediocre buffs. Although I do agree if they added what trop mentioned it would make cooking way more worth it, food that increases max damage would be invaluable for skillsets such as gunner.